Since we've put it back into the news, I want to go through the Groomer Clown Story Hour issue by doing a thread on an academic paper they wrote about it themselves. (Will unfold as a reread the paper) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
As (1/2) housekeeping tweets about the paper, here's a podcast I did reading the whole thing with my explanations. newdiscourses.com/2022/06/groome…
I also explain the background of the educational "theory" in which Groomer Clown Story Hour is embedded in my new book, The Marxification of Education, which adds much clarity to how and why it's happening. (Housekeeping tweet 2/2.) Marxification.com
The abstract of the Groomer Clown Story Hour paper ("Drag Pedagogy") reveals unsettling themese and purposes. The connect to Freire, "embodied kinship" (new queer families, as we'll see), and grooming into "living queerly" are set up as priorities for the program!
From the first paragraph, the paper about Groomer Clown Story Hour is messed up. Deliberately bringing queer subversion out of the "gayborhood" bar night scene into classrooms in early childhood education. Reading kids into filth (a drag pun). All about how to groom *young* kids.
Notice how the connection with mainstream entertainment and education in grooming kids is pointed out visibly here. Disney makes groomer content so authority figures at the schools can back it up (and cast doubt in kids' minds about their parents and authority). Important point!
Another subtle point that's easily missed: Queer Theory does not seek LGBT inclusion (as usually understood) as a goal. It's not part of a civil rights movement. It hides itself in a civil rights movement to achieve a radical agenda. They resist acceptance!
Cf. @againstgrmrs
Maybe you thought I was kidding. No! Queer Theory does not want "queer cultures" "watered down," and Groomer Clown Story Hour only pretends (for marketing purposes) to water it down for your kids. Queer Theory resists gay acceptance and normalization, especially for gay children.
A "herstory" literally about Queer men in often-sexual clownform womanface who want close proximity to children in a position of "facilitation" (grooming!). Started in 2015 in SFO. Maybe we need a DQSH Files drop to see if State intelligence agencies contributed! @elonmusk
Literally every paragraph of this paper is completely messed up. They admit targeting autistic and disabled kids, who are at a far higher risk of being pulled into gender-affirming (grooming) care and ultimately sterilized and mutilated in "transition." ¡Y se hablan español!
Names needed!
Groomer Clown Story Hour wasn't organic. It has been pushed. It's an active measure of unconventional warfare against our society.
Even then, almost two years ago, operational preparation of the environment was occurring in this active measure. I still believe firmly it's a mid-level provocation to either do damage that's allowed or provoke a Drag Floyd event. Both possibilities are covered here.
Thanks to the media coverage at controversy, Groomer Clown Story Hour is worth studying, they say. They manufactured that and then used it as a justification for putting it in front of kids. Paulo Freire's generative method features prominently. It uses "generated" conversations.
And see? There's nothing bad about Groomer Clown Story Hour! It's just an extension of what teachers already do with young children! But it teaches rule-breaking with a "fun" man in clownform womanface in front of your kids encouraging breaking the rules. Boring people object.
See, boring, "unimaginative" (not Queer Gnostic) people don't understand Groomer Clown Story Hour. But the "fun," "imaginative" groomer clowns and your kids can conspire together against those boring people (outside of Queer Gnosis), like sane teachers and parents who object.
Kids and groomer clowns, they say, are more alike than kids and boring adults. It's more natural to children to find affinity with groomer clowns than normal people who reject it.
Groomer clowns will also "push limits and boundaries" with your kids. That should be "celebrated."
These people really are groomer clowns and groomer-clown supporters. They just want you to consider how groomer clowns and (young) children might work together in what amounts to "queer worldmaking."
What word should be used for this?
Grooming!
This is from an academic paper in a major curriculum journal.
They *literally tell you* it's a coded message. Groomer Clown Story Hour is groomer brainwashing into "alternate modes of (queer) kinship" and all that other stuff. They're telling groomers and groomer clowns that this is a grooming document and must be read that way.
Right after announcing it's a coded message to groomers, they say this: it's about teaching kids "how to *live queerly*." And they live for it. This is a groomer document. Everyone should be pointing to it.
It's hard to dispense with anything from this disaster of a document now that we know what it is through the introduction, but I'll get more sparse and hot highlights from here on. To read or hear the whole thing, go read it (top of thread) or listen here. newdiscourses.com/2022/06/groome…
Gotta take an intermission (maybe until tomorrow) on this thread. Plane is about to land. Got more detailed than I intended! Here are some previews of a few key parts!
Why do they say we need Groomer Clown Story Hour? Without it, education "straightens the child," which makes him more suitable to fit in with the nation and uphold economic productivity. The Marxism in Queer Marxism is highly visible.
Notice they frame existence as being "scripted" by dominant forces that need to be resisted. The "scripting" of childhood is what they want to seize control over to "script" it into queer performance. They have to overturn (or queer) developmental psych to do this, and are.
See what "queer" means? Identity destabilization and the obliteration of standards of normalcy (and decency) for the purpose of achieving Marxist objectives. It's a political practice of railing against what is for the crime of being.
I did a short-form podcast on this exact topic that you should check out: Queer Theory is Queer Marxism. Media Matters @mmfa will probably eventually throw a fit that the graphic for that podcast series ("New Discourses Bullets") is a bullet. newdiscourses.com/2022/08/queer-…
I also did a longer podcast on similar topics. Your pronouns are "hammer/sickle," and I have the receipts. newdiscourses.com/2022/03/queer-…
How plain do they have to make it that Queer Theory is not interested in gay acceptance and is actively hostile to gay normalization, both of which it intentionally hides behind, before you'll believe them? It's to "actively destabilize"... your kids, esp if gay/ASD, and society.
I repeat. Queer Theory is Queer Marxism.
Queerness is a liberated utopia, apparently. This is religious writing.
Groomer Clown Story Hour is an active measure in a Cultural Marxism (or, Western Marxism) operation designed to rewrite the cultural scripts of the modern West.
Groomer Clown Story Hour makes deliberate use of "librarian drag" and "teacher drag" as disruptive motifs for transforming schooling into Queer Marxist brainwashing.
They know good and damn well that Groomer Clown Story Hour is actually Marxism hiding behind dragface. They aren't just maliciously hiding behind gay people but also the art from of drag, which they are, of course, destroying by turning it into a socialist hyperrealist pastiche.
After explaining that they are using drag to their specific Queer Marxist purposes, the Groomer Clown Story Hour authors brag about their cannibalism. They're "situating" themselves as "on the right side of history" instead of as its deliberate undertakers.
Know how they're always saying Groomer Clown Story Hour is "family friendly"? They mean it but not what you think they mean by it. And they know they're playing people (remember above, reading must be done on multiple levels at once, pic 2), see pic 3 from later in the paper.
They're not just reading to your kids in Groomer Clown Story Hour; they're also reading your kids. In other words, they're trying to use Groomer Clown Story Hour as an opportunity to discover what might "conscientize" your kids into "living queerly."
Yet again, the Groomer Clown Story Hour authors remind us that the purpose of the program is NOT what we always are told it is: increased LGBT acceptance. They repeat this point over and over again for a reason: it's central to their point.
GROOMERS
As a technical point on the same excerpt, notice how they introduce something horrible, say it's basically the same thing that already happens, then distract you from the real point (Groomer Schools) by talking about high-minded "theories of play." This tactic is often used.
Queer Marxism alert!
The goal of Groomer Clown Story Hour is to put a male clown dressed and acting as as a sexualized woman in front of kids to teach them to "break as many rules as possible." What are some rules one might think of in such a circumstance, and who would want to break them?
This violates one of the Ten Commandments. Actually, it probably violates most of them.
I hear the Serpent in Genesis 3. Do you?
This tweet won't make much sense to most of you yet, but it will later. This is Hermetic wizardry. As below, transform yourself, so above, change how you're seen by society. As above, new society enforces compliance, so below, new social norms reify your transformation.
They're telling you explicitly that Groomer Clown Story Hour pretends to be professional and serious, and is good at the lie, and then say immediately after that it's "firmly rooted in queer pleasure." It's male clowns dressed as fetish-sexualized women in front of kids!
I think another intermission is due because this is a long thread! Be back with more of the grotesque Groomer Clown Story Hour paper later! In the meantime, read it for yourself! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
A little mid-intermission entertainment for you, in keeping with our theme about Groomer Clown Story Hour.
This part looks weird but is deep. I'll stay light, though. The focus on potentiality, that which can be brought into existence and actualized, is a tell that we're dealing with poetic mysticism. The magic is achieved through the aesthetics (yuck!) of a groomer clown.
The way this magic works is by appealing to the (Romantic) potential of the children's imagination about what could be, here with regard to gender. The purpose is to start its actualization. It's dialectical (negates usual lessons) and Freirean dialogic (marxification.com).
The aesthetic dimension is meant to be transformational from what is to what the groomers insist could be if we got out of the prison of our current being. This is (Queer) Gnosticism, and it needs to groom your children into actualizing the fantasies of adult perverts.
This part is impossible to understand without understanding the dialectical (Hermetic) process of transformation, but the goal is to groom kids into believing they can see themselves as they were intended in the Mind of God (Nous) before gender was assigned/imposed on them.
This part is far easier to understand, though it's the same paragraph. Here, the boring mundane existing world is contrasted with the spectacular divine world, and the groomer clown is the mystic bringing the children into Queer Mind, hence all that "imagination" stuff.
What this section indicates so far is that Groomer Clown Story Hour is a cult initiation ceremony into Queer Gnosticism, an introduction to the Eleusinian mysteries of Queerness. If you know how those things work, you'll understand that the word "groomer" hits the mark exactly.
You can see the cultish aspects by the suggestion that there's more knowledge available as you go deeper followed by the stated goal of "denaturalizing gender" through the aesthetics of the initiation. It's an invitation to leave the Fallen world for the Ascended.
Aside: The Left is currently mad that I'm exposing that Groomer Clown Story Hour is a provocation (an unconventional warfare tactic posing as an "educational" approach), but...
While this steps aside from the mystical initiation into a Queer Imaginary direction, see that its presence is justified through Paulo Freire's approach to education. The Marxification of Education is an important book to read to understand things (marxification.com).
Again, we see the initiation contrast between the mundane real and the hidden Divine Queer. Then we're told what the initiation is for, and it's horrific. Losing control, breaking rules, and the groomer's pleasure. It's an Eleusinian orgy in pastiche. They're groomer clowns.
Let that sink in. The mere presence of the groomer clown is a provocation meant to induce a Dionysian initiation "orgy" into the mysteries of Queer Esotericism. Groomer Clown Story Hour is religious instruction into a religion straight out of Hell.
The remedy, what kids will be initiated into, is "strategic defiance" (against norms/rules) and facilitated "chaos." The Gnostic character of this initiation cannot be ignored. Being "normal" imprisons children in their own being, from which they can escape through Queer Gnosis.
On a more practical level, Groomer Clown Story Hour looks to teach kids to break the rules and is opposed to classroom management. It is therefore anti-learning, but they already told us that too (second pic, both flashbacks).
No responsible educator can defend any of this for any reason in any time or place.
Question: Do you want a perverted man dressed in clownform womanface to treat your kid like this at school, which is working with them in loco parentis? Of course you don't. It's child abuse.
Groomer Clown Story Hour is supposed to teach kids that rules are arbitrary and that enables them to be world-transformers. But it gets worse when you realize it's a groomer clown encouraging this "messiness" with children to take them outside "the boundaries of acceptability."
Here's a simple, practical purpose of Groomer Clown Story Hour: to generate (marxification.com) deconstructive questions and facilitate deconstructive conversations within the framing of Queer Marxism. That is, it's to set up the Freirean brainwashing program.
Groomer Clown Story Hour is rooted in a "pedagogy of desire" centered on the groomer clown. Gross!
So much to say about this! How to be brief?
Rousseau and Hegel are plainly visible, and so the Hermetic Romanticism that only destroys and consumes is at the heart of Groomer Clown Story Hour. But of course it is!
So, Groomer Clown Story Hour is supposed to use "camp curriculum" to "open potentialities" (with groomer clowns?) to encourage shame as curriculum. 😬😬😬
Camp is meant to be in bad taste, by definition. So curriculum pointing towards embracing shame should be "campy" in GCSH.
The goal is to teach ironic sass so that kids are taught to "dethrone the serious," which will help them lean into the "play as praxis" approach of the "fun" groomer clown, while seeing sane teachers and their parents as stodgy, out-of-touch bores and prudes. (See: Yoel Roth.)
The goal of Groomer Clown Story Hour is to push kids into emotional reactions by leading them into failure and shame and keeping them there until they become sassy bitches who "defang" their sting by learning to revel in filth, to make fun out of it. Emotional manipulation.
Grooming kids by laughing about their poop with them. Great for groomer clowns to bond with kids through shared irreverence and impropriety. What other taboo and scandalous topics come later, not mentioned in this paper (which, I kid you not, believes itself to be subtle)?
Idk who needs to hear it (groomer clowns won't listen), but bonding playfully with children by making taboo, scandalous, and dirty topics about private things is literally grooming children!
Groomer Clown Story Hour teaches kids that society is actually wrong for considering certain things shameful or taboo. Thus it grooms them into expanding their ideas of appropriateness. That might help them identify with "queer figures" like the groomer clown. IT'S GROOMING!
Groomer Clown Story Hour teaches that norms are arbitrary (usually false) and encouraged them not to believe in "institutional expectations." In other words, it intentionally removes the boundaries necessary for healthy growth while setting up the groomer clown as a queer guru.
Groomer Clown Story Hour relies on critical pedagogy (marxification.com), i.e., is Marxist brainwashing. I'm reading "foregrounding interpretation" as "Is that weird? Who's to say?" from a groomer clown to your kids.
Can you hear the Serpent in Genesis 3 again? Now imagine it's a groomer clown winking at your child and asking them to come and see a whole new world, like in Aladdin or some other among their favorite stories, to be written "playfully" together.
I bet you didn't think it could get worse, but it gets worse and worse consistently right up to the last sentence (you'll see!).
The last of the five areas Groomer Clown Story Hour addresses is redefining the family (by embodying queerness).
You're about to discover that the widespread and often-repeated claim that Groomer Clown Story Hour is about teaching kids gay people exist and deserve empathy is a strategic lie. They're going to tell us plainly too, not just hint at it to set it up here. They're groomers!
They're lying about why it's there, and they know they're lying about why it's there.
Groomer Clown Story Hour is NOT about LGBT awareness, empathy, or acceptance. That's just a sales pitch so idiots will let it in the schools. It's marketing language applied strategically.
Groomer Clown Story Hour participants belong in prison.
Groomer Clown Story Hour is an initiation into Queer Gnosticism.
Cutting out all the middle part of the paragraph reveals its point: Groomer Clown Story Hour markets itself as being about increasing LGBT acceptance and empathy but is actually about awakening "queer aspects of themselves" in your kids.
This is deliberate fraud. To groom kids.
This just keeps getting worse (and will continue to do so).
"Rather than building empathy...drag pedaogy might enact a mode of queer kinship" and allow groomer clowns to have relationships with children (not "young people") "that otherwise would not be possible."
GROOMERS!
Believe it or not, that paragraph finishes even grosser. Your kids get groomed to heal the wounds of the monsters grooming them. Cycle of abuse! Groomer Clown Story Hour is so sick it's unbelievable.
Groomer Clown Story Hour has a better idea for your kids than families and healthy school environments that foster healthy growth. It offers a special new kind of kinship between your kids and groomer clowns that represent alternative futures to growing up whole and happy.
Yay, the end is nigh! How bad could this be...? LOL...
They know they're wrecking drag as an artform (turning it into socialist hyperrealism). Worse, though, they don't care because "queer worldmaking...has long been a project driven by desire." Groomer Clown Story Hour is a project DRIVEN BY DESIRE to make a queer world out of kids.
Oh, the humanity!
Groomer Clown Story Hour is "family friendly" in the sense of leaving your real family for your drag/queer "family" on the street.
Groomer Clown Story Hour is literally grooming. Undeniably. A "preparatory introduction" to "alternate modes of kinship."
The problem for Groomer Clown Story Hour isn't that it's evil grooming. It's that it might get co-opted by capitalism, apparently because "it looks good " the authors debunk that claim by showing us what it actually looks like, though. Fact check: NOPE!
To reiterate, the problem faced by Groomer Clown Story Hour is that it might succumb to capitalism and lose its "transformative power" and access to "alternate kinship structures." YUCK!
Groomer Clown Story Hour wants you to know, in closing, that their goal with schoolchildren is to "[leave] a trail of glitter that won’t ever come out of the carpet."
They are groomers. This is criminal. Doing Drag Queen (Groomer Clown) Story Hour should carry felony charges.
The end!
Thank you for reading. Read the paper for yourself here, although most of it is presented above. Share this thread widely. People need to know, and this needs to be stopped legally and immediately. Do not give them Drag Floyd! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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From my Woke Encyclopedia, an explanation of the "friend-enemy distinction" of Carl Schmitt, which is the Woke political logic. Link at the end!🧵
(1/13) The friend-enemy distinction refers to the cornerstone object of the political and judicial philosophy of a German theorist named Carl Schmitt, who wrote a number of works of right-wing political philosophy and thought before becoming such an enthusiastic Nazi in 1933, just after Adolf Hitler took power, that he earned the informal title “the Crown Jurist of the Third Reich.”
Though most of his significant political thinking was done both before and after he was a Nazi, during the years when he was a part of Hitler’s National Socialist movement and Party, he contributed strongly to the legal theory that justified the Nazi “total state,” including writing the 1933 piece that gets rendered in English as “The Legal Basis for the Total State,” which is significantly based upon the friend-enemy distinction.
Friend-enemy distinction:
(2/13) Schmitt’s thought is primarily of interest on the Woke Right, where he is a favored thinker and model political mind. He is vigorously forwarded for a handful of his political concepts, perhaps most visibly his “friend-enemy distinction” as the essential criterion of what makes politics political. This idea is first presented and developed in full detail in his 1927/32 book The Concept of the Political.
Friend-enemy distinction:
(3/13) For Schmitt, what makes the politics political is the distinction between (public) friend and (public) enemy, where enemies are defined as those who are interested in destroying one’s way of life and friends are defined as those who are willing to band together in its defense.
Schmitt specifically compares the essential nature of this distinction in politics to the distinction between good and evil in morality, beautiful and ugly in aesthetics, and profitable versus non-profitable in economics.
That is, politics is only political to the degree that it recognizes the possibility of factions that exist in mutual enmity underwritten by the potentially existential threat of violence. Of course, that means that Schmitt believes the essential criterion of politics is war, which he reveals also in part by making his point by completing the identity contained in von Clausewitz’s famous remark that “war is politics by other means.”
All radical movements find themselves in a pinch: they can only really advance when people don't know their true intentions, but they can only really advance by going public with what they're doing. It's an intrinsic dilemma that only rare figures in rare circumstances can win.
Mamdani is a good example of a rare figure (extremely good at presenting himself disingenuously while looking real) in rare circumstances (terrible primary opponent, then running against a terrible combination of Cuomo/Sliwa, then still not winning by huge margins).
The primary reason NYC got Mamdani isn't something to do with the electorate, the climate, or anything else. Mamdani, with tons of weird money, ran a very strong campaign (rare figure) in very weird circumstances, most of which were candidate-specific, not conditional.
Fun fact: If you had a time machine and could go back in time to this day in 2019 but couldn't take any physical evidence with you, you could not convince almost anyone to take the Woke Left threat seriously and would get mocked and yelled at for trying, even by friends.
Your left-leaning friends (if you have any) would make fun of you for not getting it. Your right-leaning friends would laugh at you for making a mountain out of a molehill. No one really understood there was a serious problem with the Woke Left until after summer 2020.
The reason I know this is because I was there and doing this full time already by that point in my life.
Introducing to you two of the "intellectual" Woke Right's favorite contemporary thinkers: Patrick Deneen (left) and R.R. Reno. Here, they demonstrate their inability to see what is plainly in front of them—a Marxist insurgency through Leftist elitist capture—because of their preference for theories of cultural rot and decay.
These kinds of theories about why we are where we are aren't just dangerous misdiagnosed; they're also self-flattering humblebrags, saying in effect, "things got bad because everyone went to shit except people like us who are better than that." Typical Woke virtue signaling except in "modest" conservative form.
Yes, they are popular with Woke Right propagandists.
It's Saturday, and the world is a mess. Perhaps it's a good time for a little humor with a point. To that end, allow me to reintroduce the "Grievance Studies Affair" to the world. This will be a longer thread (20+ posts) introducing every single paper of the Grievance Studies Affair individually in a new, never-seen-before way.
The Grievance Studies Affair (or, "Sokal Squared") was an academic hoax project done seven years ago by @peterboghossian, @HPluckrose, and I with the help of @MikeNayna, who also produced a documentary (The Reformers, 2023) about what we affectionately named "the project" as we did it.
It involved writing 20+ academic hoax articles and sending them to peer-reviewed journals in the "theoretical humanities," things like gender studies and sexuality studies, to reveal a kind of ideological academic rabies we now refer to as "Woke (Leftism)". In the end 7 of these papers were accepted, 4 were actually published, 1 received recognition for excellence in scholarship in the field of "feminist geography," and 7 more were still under peer review on October 2, 2018, when the Wall Street Journal blew our cover.
What we learned from the project is ultimately that peer review is only as good as the peers. If the peers are corrupted in some way, that corruption will be validated as "knowledge" and passed into the intellectual foundations of society through the existing system. The implications are vast. Of course, while we revealed a form of ideological corruption in academia, there are other forms as well: political, economic, corporate, etc., all of which matter in exactly the same way and for exactly the same reasons.
While the Grievance Studies Affair itself is now over six and a half years old and thus an article of history, I don't think it has ever been more relevant. To this day, it still has not been reckoned with in the slightest. Our knowledge-producing institutions have ideological rabies and corporatist cancers that will be our undoing. Until we see complete reform or replacement of much of our research, higher-education, and primary and secondary education institutions and apparatuses, we are at risk of complete societal collapse. It really is that serious, and absolutely none of it has been stopped yet.
This thread isn't just a reminder of the Grievance Studies Affair, however. It's also an introduction to a Grievance Studies Portal I have published on @NewDiscourses through much effort of my team. In this thread, each of the 20+ papers will be introduced individually with direct links to their new home on New Discourses so that you can read them and laugh (or cry, or be horrified) and share them with ease. I hope you appreciate them and all the hard work that went into them and their publication here.
For my part, it has been a great opportunity to take a day to reflect and reminisce about one of the most challenging and most fun times of my entire life. I don't think I will ever be blessed with the opportunity to work so hard while laughing my head off ever again, nor will I ever regain the innocence I had going into this project. I thought it was funny when I started. By the middle, I realized it wasn't just serious but a legitimate threat to civilization. I changed my entire life as a result, and not a lot of that has been so funny.
I hope you enjoy this thread. Below, you will find the release video Mike Nayna produced that we put out on October 2, 2018, minutes after the Wall Street Journal outed us. It has been seen millions upon millions of times now and legitimately has changed the world, just not enough. It will serve as your reminder and introduction to the absolute insanity you'll find in the posts below.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Like I said from the start, mostly I hope you'll find this at least as hilarious as it is terrifying, and maybe you'll share it with your friends.
The Grievance Studies Affair has never been more relevant.
The New Discourses Grievance Studies Affair portal is located at the link below. In it, you'll find information about each of us, our motivations, our original write-ups and analysis about the project, as well as every single paper and its peer-reviewed commentary, as available (not all papers made it to peer review).
I hope you will find it a useful and sharable resource about the plague of ideological rabies that has taken over our institutions. newdiscourses.com/grievance-stud…
What became the Grievance Studies Affair began with a trial-balloon paper that @peterboghossian and I wrote in late 2016, hilariously titled "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct." It's one of the funniest things I've ever written, rivaled only by a couple of the later Grievance Studies Papers (YMMV).
It is not housed on the Grievance Studies Affair @NewDiscourses portal, but perhaps it should be, because it wasn't part of the Grievance Studies Affair properly. It might be its second most-famous contribution, however.
In the paper, Peter and I took inspiration from a real paper that had been published in the highest-ranking gender studies journal, Gender & Society, characterizing menstrual blood as a social construct. We argued that penises are not best thought of as male reproductive organs, in part because "pre-operative trans women" also have them (which was effectively repeated in the Supreme Court argumentation this week in the Skrmetti case). Instead, they should be thought of as social constructs that create toxic masculinity and rape culture and cause all the problems in the world, especially climate change.
This paper was ultimately accepted by means of a related but passed-over academic publishing scandal in a (likely) predatory journal called Cogent Social Sciences after a clear sham peer review process after being rejected and transferred from a masculinities journal called NORMA.
Because of the low quality of the journal and the one-off nature of the stunt, it was left ambiguous if Peter and I had proved any point about gender studies and related fields ("Grievance Studies" fields) at all. We were admonished to write more papers, target serious journals, and be more accurate in our claims, and we accepted this challenge happily.
"The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct" was published in Cogent Social Sciences on May 19, 2017, and by June 7 Peter and I had resolved to start the Grievance Studies Affair to do the job right. skeptic.com/content/files/…